Elizabeth Ennis

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

Elizabeth Ennis was born in 1790, in Sussex, Sussex, New Jersey, United States. She married Samuel Gilman Clark Sr. about 1845. She died in January 1850, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 60.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Gilman Clark Sr.
1800–1851
Elizabeth Ennis
1790–1850
Marriage: about 1845

Sources (2)

  • Research Log for Elizabeth Clark by BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy
  • Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel

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1791

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1791 · The Bill of Rights

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1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’, see McGinnis and compare Angus and Hennessy .

English: perhaps a variant of Ince , or Henney with loss of initial H- and the addition of a post-medieval excrescent -s, or a variant of Enos .

Cornish: from any of various places in the western half of Cornwall called Ennis, Enys, Ninnes, etc., from Cornish (an) enys ‘(the) island’. The Saint Gluvias family is certainly from Enys in Saint Gluvias parish.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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